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IMPROVEMENT mi NOzzLEs POR EosE PIPES;

ROBERT E, MOORE, 'OE MANCHESTER, .NEW i HAMPSHIRE. Letters Patent No. 60,036, dated November 27, 1866. A

SPECIIGATION.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, ROBERT F. MOORE, of Manchester, Hillsborough county,4State of New Hampshire, have invented certain new and useful-improvements in Hose Pipes; and 'I do hereby declare the following description p and accompanying drawings are suicient to enable any person skilled` in the art or science to `which it most nearly appertains, to make and use my said invention `or improvements, without further invention or experimentL The nature of my rinvention and improvements consists in providing a hos pipe with a perforatedfmovable cap so arranged as to convert a solid .or single stream into a'shower or sprinkle, at the pleasure of the operator,

without stopping the flow of water; or a sprinkle into a solid stream with the same facility.`

In'the accompanying drawingst Figure 1 is an elevation of my hose pipe. Figure 2 is an elevation with the perforated cap open. Figure 3 is a view of the end with the perforated cap closed.

In these drawings the nozzle of a hose -pipe is representedat A, which may be made inthe form shown, or

in such other form as will answer the purpose, and provided with'a'female screw atitheend B, to'connect it to a longer pipe or hose for use. The interior of the nozzle is made to taper gradually from B to the opposite end,s

as shown in dotted lines in fig. 2. The end C of the nozzle is madesqliare and large, as shown in the drawings, to form seats for the four stands O1' boxes D D, which are fastened to it by screws, as shown in the drawing.

i The journals of the screws, E E, are fitted to turn freely'in'the stands kD D; and '3314,11` anew-haus, a; gear; F5, fastened to one end torturn it when required.` The pivot or stud, Gr, is fastened in the side Vofjfthe end or head,

C, for the gear H -to turn on, which gearsfintothe gears F F to turn-'both of the screws E at the same time, the

gear I-I being provided with a staple, I, by` which it may be turned with'tho thumb and to operate the screws E E. The hemispherical perforated-cap is made in two parts, J J, which arefitted to traverselon the endI "C, each part of the cap being provided with two lugs orear's, K K, with female screws fitted to the screws E E,"

one-half' of each screw being made right-handed, and the other half left-handed, so that when they` are turned in one direction they drawthe two parts J J of the perforated cap together over the land of the noz'zle,in(1

convert a single stream into a shower or sprinkle without stopping the; flow ofwater ndby tdi-ning the screws in the opposite direction the shower may be changed to a single stream.

In combination with a. hose pipe or nozzle, I claim a perforated movable cap, "made in two parts, and'arranged to traverse on the end of a hose pipe or nozzle, substantially as described, to enable the operator toconvert-a single stream into a. shower or sprinkle, and recouvert 1t to a single stream, without stopping the flow of water Witnesses r WATERMAN SMITH, d HENRY H. SCRIBNEE.

ROBERT E. MOORE. 

